Name, shame and jail: Ghana's undercover journalist
Why Ghanaian investigative journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas disguised himself as a psychiatric patient, as a woman seeking to adopt and as a rock in a barren landscape.
Anas Aremeyaw Anas is very well known in Africa, even though almost no one knows what he looks like. Anas is a trained lawyer-turned-investigative reporter in Ghana, and a frequent presenter of the 大象传媒's Africa Eye. In his nearly 20 years working undercover, he's exposed judges taking bribes for a not guilty verdict; top football officials fixing matches; sex trafficking rings; organ harvesting. To do so, he had to disguise himself as a psychiatric patient, as a janitor in a brothel聽and as a rock in a barren landscape. His work has led to numerous convictions, but his methods are sometimes dangerous and controversial. His latest investigation for 大象传媒 Africa Eye is called Corona Quacks, exposing the sale in Ghana of fake 'cures' for coronavirus.
Presenter: Jo Fidgen.
Producers: Andrea Kennedy and Harry Graham.
Picture: Anas Aremeyaw Anas.
Credit: 大象传媒 Africa Eye.
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